How to Make a Baby: Everything LGBTQ+ Families Need to Know About IVF and Fertility Treatments

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Allie Conway Sam Conway

How to Make a Baby

Everything LGBTQ+ Families Need to Know About IVF and Fertility Treatments

Allie Conway, Sam Conway

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Mango Media
01 October 2025

Infertility & fertilization; Pregnancy, birth & baby care

Building families through science and love.

Allie and Sam, widely recognised as 'Mommy and Other Mommy', share their emotional and transformative journey to parenthood in How to Make a Baby: Everything LGBTQ+ Families Need to Know About IVF. This inspiring guide is a must-read for LGBTQ+ families navigating artificial insemination, IVF, and other fertility options.

Growing a family as a same-sex couple comes with unique challenges.

For Allie and Sam, the path to parenthood was anything but easy. Their story reveals the highs and lows of a three-year journey, involving IUIs, a home insemination, IVF cycles, frozen embryo transfers, and significant financial and emotional investments.

From heartbreak to hope, their journey offers a beacon of guidance.

Navigating heteronormative fertility clinics, answering questions about their family dynamic, and overcoming countless obstacles, Allie and Sam show that with determination and love, it's possible to create the family you've dreamed of.

Inside, you'll find:

A comprehensive guide to fertility treatments like artificial insemination, IVF, and frozen embryo transfers, specifically for LGBTQ+ families Valuable insights into the emotional, societal, and financial challenges of the fertility journey, including IVF costs and clinic experiences Hopeful, practical advice to support your unique path to parenthood and create a more inclusive understanding of lesbian couples and their families

If you likedIt Starts with the Egg,You Got This

IVF Planner and Journal, orOh Sis, You're Pregnant!, you'll loveHow to Make a Baby.

By: Allie Conway, Sam Conway
Imprint: Mango Media
Country of Publication: United States [Currently unable to ship to USA: see Shipping Info]
Dimensions: Height: 215mm, Width: 139mm, Spine: 9mm
ISBN: 9781684817627
ISBN 10: 1684817625
Pages: 204
Publication Date: 01 October 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Introduction Trying to Conceive as a Same-Sex Couple Chapter One Paths to Parenthood: Adoption vs. Fertility Treatments Chapter Two Finding the Right Fit: Choosing a Fertility Clinic Chapter Three “Who’s the Dad?”: Picking a Sperm Donor Chapter Four Two Ladies Make a Baby: TTC Methods for Same-Sex Couples Chapter Five Whose Bun in Whose Oven?: Choosing Our Roles Chapter Six A Date with Wanda: Pre-Pregnancy Testing Chapter Seven It’s Baby Making Time: Our First IUI Chapter Eight If at First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again: Our Second and Third IUIs Chapter Nine Time to Pivot: Transitioning to IVF Chapter Ten Shots, Shots, Baby: IVF Chapter Eleven Ovaries the Size of Grapefruit: The Egg Retrieval Process Chapter Twelve OHSS and Egg Retrieval Results Chapter Thirteen Transferring a Dream: Our First Embryo Transfer Chapter Fourteen Continuing to Dream: Our Second Embryo Transfer Chapter Fifteen DIY Conception: Trying At-Home Insemination Chapter Sixteen Try, Try Again: Our Third Embryo Transfer Chapter Seventeen Rainbow Baby: We’re Pregnant! Chapter Eighteen “I’m Sorry, There’s No Heartbeat”: Experiencing a Missed Miscarriage Chapter Nineteen A New Direction: Allie’s First Embryo Transfer Chapter Twenty Hope After Heartbreak: We’re Finally Expecting Chapter Twenty-One A Double Rainbow: Pregnant…with Twins Chapter Twenty-Two Pump It Up: Inducing Lactation Chapter Twenty-Three The Cost of It All: Financing Fertility Treatments Closing Commonly Asked Questions: Two-Mom Edition Glossary of Fertility Terms Acknowledgments About the Authors

We're Allie and Sam, a same-sex couple who has been together for nearly a decade and our story starts on a dating app, like any modern love story. We started sharing our life online as a way to keep our families updated on our adventures around the globe together, but it quickly became a way to share much-needed queer representation; to showcase that a happy, full life is possible as an out and proud LGBTQ+ person. We have been blessed with an amazing, engaged online community over our more than six years of sharing our lives on the internet. We have also done public speaking engagements about various LGBTQ+ issues in schools, for non-profits, and for major brands. We live in Nova Scotia.

Reviews for How to Make a Baby: Everything LGBTQ+ Families Need to Know About IVF and Fertility Treatments

“How to Make a Baby is a warm, honest, and empowering guide for LGBTQ+ families navigating the fertility journey. Allie and Sam share their personal experience with humor, heart, and clarity, making space for anyone who has ever felt like they didn’t quite belong in the fertility world. This book is the supportive friend and trusted resource we all need.” —Dr. Aimee D. Eyvazzadeh, MPH, reproductive endocrinologist and host of The Egg Whisperer Show “Allie and Sam not only share their beautiful path to becoming parents, but do so in a way that is equal parts informative and moving. A must-read for families trying to conceive and for those that want to see parts of their own story represented and reflected.” —Rachael Lippincott, New York Times bestselling author of She Gets the Girl “Open, frank, touching, and informative… Allie and Sam Conway are the perfect couple to write this groundbreaking book. Their journey is remarkable. I wish I’d had it when we went through IVF.” —J.T. Ellison, New York Times bestselling author of It’s One of Us